The Thought Criminal

"It seems to me that to organize on the basis of feeding people or righting social injustice and all that is very valuable. But to rally people around the idea of modernism, modernity, or something is simply silly. I mean, I don't know what kind of a cause that is, to be up to date. I think it ultimately leads to fashion and snobbery and I'm against it." Jack Levine: January 3, 1915 – November 8, 2010 LEVEL BILLIONAIRES OUT OF EXISTENCE

Saturday, September 3, 2022

The Bizarre Intersections of Right-Wing Religion, Body Builders, Woman Abusers And Popular Atheists - Two Pieces

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HAVING WRITTEN A response to a piece of hate mail the other day, I decided I probably wouldn't post it but this morning this piece abou...
Friday, September 2, 2022

A Classic Example Of Why Ranked Choice Voting Is A Better Deal For The Majority Of Voters Of All Parties

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AMERICAN APARTHEID future Presidential candidate Tom Cotton has been trying to make hay over the Alaskan election which the Democrat Mary Pe...

Rejecting "nostalgia for a sacralized world, a bygone society" As Well As "Secularism" As A Requirement Outside Of Governmental Administration

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A BUSY DAY for me so I'll leave you with this passage from a piece by Michael Sean Winters which contains an excellent passage from Po...
Thursday, September 1, 2022

Christian Nationalism Is Not Christian And Why The Worship Of The Past Is Dangerous

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THE SHORT ARTICLE , Why Christian nationalism is unchristian by Thomas Reese, SJ, a Jesuit, had a quote from a letter from John Adams I fou...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Galileo Must Weep When He Sees What They Did To His Philosophy - Yeah, more of that

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ONE OF THE MOST important events in my late-life reconversion to religion and guarded confidence in human reason was reading the statement o...
Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Someone Doesn't Like Me Calling America's Indigenous Tradition of Fascism What It Is

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I'd Rather Live Under A Government Imperfectly Based On The Golden Rule Than Under Any Modern, Pseudo-Scientific Constitution - Hate Mail

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I FEEL LIKE I HAVE gotten someplace with the idea that the scientism of modern thought following the merely clerical choice to exclude ques...
Monday, August 29, 2022

Trump-appointed-judge Aileen Cannon grants Trump's demand for special master BEFORE DOJ weighs in

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    This stinking, rotten judge should be removed from the bench, if there is no legal means of doing that, the state of the law is extremel...

Dreams Of Violent Revolution Are The Milquetoast Fantasies Of The Scribbling, Tenured Class - Hate Mail

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MARXISM IS NOT the most radical* form of socialism, the socialism that insists that the workers rightfully own the means of production and ...
Sunday, August 28, 2022

That Imaginary Purification Is Just That, Imaginary. So Is The "Purity" Of The Results - Hate Mail

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JUST HOW DOES THAT WORK?   Please explain it.  Every single instance of "data collection" in sociology is fraught with subjectivit...
Saturday, August 27, 2022

A Republic If You Can Keep It

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MUCH AS I RESPECT the post-presidency of Jimmy Carter and even his sand-bagged presidency, in retrospect, I don't think any Democratic ...

But, of course, when rights are situated amid might and wealth something happens to rights

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"facets of having one's way in the world" IN THINKING ABOUT THE PERVERSION of the idea of rights divorced from moral responsib...
Thursday, August 25, 2022

Get Liz Cheney On Record As Opposing the Unitary Executive Theory Before Beatifying Her

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ONE OF THE THINGS that Liz Cheney must be grilled on before her media canonization as a presidential candidate - who will result in splittin...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

The Goddamned Media Is Not The Friend Of Equality, Democracy Or Even The Survival Of The World

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Night Thoughts And Hate Mail

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INSOMNIA And NIGHT THOUGHTS CAN be an opportunity for serious thinking and last night it helped me do what I hadn't done while fully aw...
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